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£140 Down & 2 Years Later: How a used Surface Laptop Go became my new Favourite Laptop.

Sitting on eBay ready for someone to notice, a Surface Laptop Go 1st Gen was listed for £140. 16GB RAM, Intel i5-1035G1. I noticed, and it was perfect for what I needed. After a minute of looking at it, after the initial, “I want it” thought had worn off, I was a bit sceptical, “Is it damaged? Are the specs wrong? Has the seller put the wrong price up?”. Spoiler: I haven’t looked back since. The Surface has an Intel i5-1035G1 and 16GB RAM. Both of these things were very appealing to me as the CPU meant it would be Windows 11 capable, meaning even though, I preferred Windows 10, I was future proofed. And arguably most importantly the 16GB meant that I could have loads of applications open, Word and VS Code open for coursework, Chrome with loads of tabs open for research and YouTube running in the background, etc… As a college student that was particularly important to me. I had been in college for about a month, and I had been lugging my gaming laptop into college everyday, taking it ...